The King and I (1956) | |
| Director(s) | Walter Lang |
| Producer(s) | Charles Brackett, Darryl F. Zanuck (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Biographical, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance |
| Top Topics | Based on Play, Book-Based, Exotic Lands, Teachers, True Story (based on) |
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The King and I Overview:
The King and I (1956) was a Drama - Family Film directed by Walter Lang and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Charles Brackett.
The film was based on the musical of the same name written by Oscar Hammerstein II performed at the St. James Theatre, NY from Mar 29, 1951 - Mar 20, 1954.
Academy Awards 1956 --- Ceremony Number 29 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actor | Yul Brynner | Won |
| Best Actress | Deborah Kerr | Nominated |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox | Won |
| Best Cinematography | Leon Shamroy | Nominated |
| Best Costume Design | Irene Sharaff | Won |
| Best Director | Walter Lang | Nominated |
| Best Music - Scoring | Alfred Newman, Ken Darby | Won |
| Best Picture | Charles Brackett, Producer | Nominated |
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The King and I (1956)
By Beatrice on Apr 1, 2016 From Flickers in TimeThe King and I Directed by Walter Lang Written by Ernest Lehman based on the musical play by Oscar Hammerstein III based on Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon 1956/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Repeat viewing/Amazon Instant When Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr begin to polka, ... Read full article
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on May 20, 2014 From Journeys in Classic FilmNext to The Sound of Music, everyone knows the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I. ?Their celebrity status probably is the reason both have similar plotlines: A governess out of her depth travels to a new place to teach a powerful’s man children, of which there’s several. ?Wh... Read full article
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Quotes from
Anna: No one knows really.
King: Well, does he have enough guns and elephants for transporting things?
Anna: I don't think they have elephants in America, your majesty.
King: No elephants? No wonder he is not winning war!
King: ...Pairs of male elephants to be released into the forests of America. There it is hoped that they will grow in number and the people can tame them and use them as beasts of burden.
Anna: But your majesty, I don't think you mean pairs of MALE elephants.
King: You will order the finest gold chopsticks.
Anna: Your Majesty, chopsticks? Don't you think knives and forks would be more suitable?
King: I make mistake, the British not scientific enough to know how to use chopsticks.
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Facts about
The "Small House of Uncle Thomas" segment in this film is the only American theatrical version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to be made in the sound era. It was filmed in 1965 as a German theatrical movie, Onkel Toms Hütte, and in America, for TV in 1987 (Uncle Tom's Cabin), but not as a film per se. (The very obscure Uncle Tom's Cabin does not count, as it's an exploitation movie centered on torture and with little more than the title to do with Harriet Beecher Stowe's story.)
Marni Nixon was hired on a six-week contract, and she was to be at the studio every day that Deborah Kerr rehearsed a scene with a song in it. Nixon would actually stand next to Kerr and walk through the whole scene - both of them singing - and Nixon would be looking closely at Kerr's facial expressions to try to imitate her speech pattern in the songs.
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